Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-04-02
COAST ITEMS.

| WaitsDurg, w. l., Is 10 nave co!iege.
Seattle, W. T., claims population of 10,
900.
Los Angeles county has 1855 orange
trees.
Huron, Fresno county, is to sink an ate
sian we'll to depth Of 1000 feet.
The bridge across the Salinas at Paso Ro.
bles is to be $50 feet long, with three spans.
A fire at Taylor & Crocker's ranch at
Pfomontory, Utah, destroyed Sac, 900 house.
Santa Ana is discussing the importance of
constructing great sewer from that town to
Newport Bay some eight miles.
lone will be the place where the new agri-
cultural district of Amador and Calaveras
counties will hold its first Fair.
Orange growers in Southern California are
fastening the shipment OF fruit before the
Interstate Commerce law goes into effect.
Judge Arson Brunsou Of Los Angeles has
resigned the Superior Court Judgeship and
has accepted the Office of Attorney for the
Atchison Road.
The Piutes are capturing trout with grab
hooks while they are trying to ascend the
dam in the Truckee river at the Reno Re
duction Works.
An English colony is to settle in the south
ern part Of Tehama county, and Ia, 900 acres
Of land were pur chased this week in behalf
Of the colony.
E. J. Baldwin is having plans drawn for
$500, 900 hotel at the new town Of Arcadia,
on the Santa Anita rancho. The first story
will be granite at the site. 1t will have 500
feet frontage.
The Cooperative Colony Association met
at Los Angeles last night and appointed
Hon. George Rice and Col. o. H. Violet
committee to visit Upper California and in
spect land for the colonists.
Twenty hundred persons put on the total
abstinence badge of blue ribbon at Sacra-
mento during the late temperance meetings
and 300, many OF whom were hard drinkers,
have signed the pledge and proudly wear the
ribbon.
Los Angeles is urged by the Mayor to in
stitute thorough system of cleaning of the
sewers and private yards. He thinks the
people will willingly consent TO some feasible
plan to extend and enlarge the present sewer
system.
The San Diego Board of Trustees have
telegraphed Colonel George E. Waring, IT,,
at Newport, R. l., to come and superintend
the laying of the San Diego sewer system,
his compensation to be 6 per cent. Of the
cost and his expenses.
The snowsheds at the east portal Of the
CascadeTunnel have had to be strengthened
in order to support the snow slides which
are constantly coming down the mountain
side. The snow at present on the sheds has
depth of eighty feet.
The Board of Trustees who are on site
selecting tour for the branch Normal School
were at Red Bluff. The competing towns
have done their best to show off the advan-
tages they possess for such an educational
institution, and the trustees have been treat
ed like princes.
-Four cowboys fried into some shepherd
ers who were watering their stock, near
Grant Station, on the line between Mexico
and Arizona, few days ago. One of the
herders was killed outright and another died
from his wounds. A posse of law officers
has gone in pursuit Of the cowboys.
DR.. Walter Fuchs, the prominent scientist
who is now making deep-sea soundings in the
Santa Barbara channel for the Agassiz AS
ISOLATION, has just returned from trip to
the islands. He reports that he found there
a cave which greatly resembles the celebrat-
ed "Bue Grotto" Of Capri, only far more
beautiful.
A flowing well has been sunk on the Ala
mitos rancho above the new Alamitos exten.
sion at Long Beach, Los Angeles county. A
great deposit Of pipe clay has been discov-
cred on the coast, and large operations have
been begun carrying water over the new set
Element and the surrounding country. About
one mile per week of this glazed pipe eight
inches in diameter, is now being made.